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NAT075 - (US-Music-Taylor-Swift) (FOR PRODUCTION) NEW YORK. x-30s. Taylor Swift is shattering a personal best with her new album. Pre-orders for Swift's album "reputation" have reached more than 400-thousand units and and the album has become Target's biggest music pre-sale of all-time. Big Machine Records says that pre-orders for "reputation" -- to be released November 10th -- are double the number of pre-orders for Swift's "1989" album a week before its release in 2014. Swift's last three albums have each sold over a million units in their debut weeks. Here's clip of Swift's single, "Ready For It?." (fades) (SOURCE:The Associated Press)

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NAT076 - (US-Bergdahl-Sentencing) (NOT FOR ONLINE USE) FORT BRAGG. x-03s. A military judge has ruled that Bowe Bergdahl, the U-S Army sergeant who walked off his post in Afghanistan and triggered a search that wounded some of his comrades, will serve no prison time. …